“Awakening the Buddha Within” – Science of Mind Magazine

 "Enlightened Leadership: Kings, Queens and the 99 Percent" posted January 24, 2013 I watched the inauguration on Monday, and thought about how desperately our county needs visionary enlightened leadership.  As President Obama takes on the next four years, I pray for the safety and flourishing of his young family and for an era of self-control as well as gun control, to help us safeguard our society and ourselves from the violence and strife characteristic of people not at peace with themselves. Buddha's renowned Eightfold Noble Path is the world's oldest extant business plan. His business...

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I started the new year at our 19th annual winter Dzogchen Center meditation retreat, which we've been holding for the last ten or more years on the snowy banks of the mighty Hudson at the Garrison Institute in New York, right across from Bear Mountain and West Point. I love going there every winter and watching the river flow by, while praying, meditating, chanting, and walking through the lovely woods.  My students and I spend the week dancing the life of awakefulness into being through practices including meditative mindfulness training, centering, presencing, Tibetan energy yoga, self-inquiry,...

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“Awakening the Buddha Within” (an interview with Lama Surya Das) Science of Mind Magazine by David Goldberg February, 2013 (reprinted with permission) As a seventeen-year-old right out of high school, I had the chance to travel around the world with the international musical group “Up with People.” The finale of our two hour show was “Moon Rider,” a song based on the thoughts of astronaut Eugene Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17and the last man to walk on the moon, as he looked back at the Earth. One of the lines from that song is “I see the world without any borders; without...

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